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Question Persistent PC freezing issue, but only in specific games ?
I've been encountering frequent freezes on my PC while playing certain games, such as Rainbow Six Siege and Forza Horizon 5. The freezes result in a complete system lock-up, requiring a manual restart. Here are the details and troubleshooting steps I've taken: • PC freezes occur only during...- icemaker15
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- crash deadlock freeze
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Question Programs are crashing/freezing, or not responding ?
Recently I've been experiencing weird stutters and random program crashes (mostly) while playing games. The game (e.g CSGO) would crash either randomly, or freeze after almost every round for about 10 seconds. I haven't noticed a drastic FPS drop, the components aren't overloaded, but even after... -
Question Used HP Elitebook G3 locked me out to keep me safe from me illegally.
My used HP Elitebook 840 G3 doesn't boot into a live Linux USB. I gave up on trying to boot into Linux and then it locked me out of my own Windows OS. Attached is a picture of the lock out screen. It logs in, I haven't changed the default HP account with no password and then it proceeds to sign...- Noahqayain
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- bios Boot elitebook 840 freeze hp Laws Linux Linux Boot windows 10
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- Forum: Laptop Tech Support
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Question PC Freezing on idle
Hi, I had this exact problem a while back and it was resolved through getting a new SSD. However, I never knew the source of my problem. Basically my PC would just freeze on idle and would have to be hard reset in order to be used. It would also have weird extreme lag spikes occasionally while... -
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Question Computer freezes when steam launches
for the past week or two my PC has been freezing shortly after startup. after finally figuring how to boot in safe mode(why did they have to change it from just pressing f8 or whatever key to that convoluted way) and disabling all the startup programs I seemed to have fixed it. skip foward to 2...- JonCondiff
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- freeze Steam windows 11
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Question PC deadlocks only while gaming
Hi i recently started getting deadlocks that only happen when im gaming. When im browsing google or even stress testing my components it doesnt freeze. My keyboard and mouse stop working even LEDs on them and i have to restart holding the power button. The only games that doesnt cause freezing...- icemaker15
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- Deadlocking freeze
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- Forum: Components
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Question Game freezes at random times when using an ultrawide screen
Age of Computer: 3.5 years Monitor LG UltraGear 34GN850-B Resolution 3440x1440 (34 inch) Screen Settings 144hz Adaptive-Sync On HDR OFF Response Time FAST DAS Mode ON Hardware SSD: Samsung 970 EVO 1TB M.2 HDD: Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM008 2TB CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X GPU: Gigabyte AORUS...- job.vanaalst
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- freeze gaming gpu lg ultragear 34gn850-b monitor RTX 2080
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- Forum: Displays
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Question Game freezes at random times when using an ultrawide screen
Age of Computer: 3.5 years Monitor LG UltraGear 34GN850-B Resolution 3440x1440 (34 inch) Screen Settings 144hz Adaptive-Sync On HDR OFF Response Time FAST DAS Mode ON Hardware SSD: Samsung 970 EVO 1TB M.2 HDD: Seagate Barracuda ST2000DM008 2TB CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X GPU: Gigabyte AORUS...- job.vanaalst
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- freeze gaming gpu lg ultragear 34gn850-b monitor RTX 2080
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- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Question pc restaring randomly,freezing,thinking in sequences and sometimes not booting when turned on
Hi my PC restarts randomly ,some times freezes and when I turn on the computer it starts but suddenly shuts down for bit like a few seconds and turns on again then boots normally or sometimes doesn't boot at all and it has a wierd problem that is not "mouse related" which is the cursor shows...- azinjanati
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- freeze not booting Restart
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Question Iris Xe possibly freezing windows
I got a new laptop in January this year(2023), and since then Im experiencing a strange situation where suddenly all my open applications start to not respond to click and then freeze. I can still open new applications but as soon as they start execution they also freeze. I cant shutdown by...- fabiano_2
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- freeze freezing gpu iris xe Not Responding
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- Forum: Graphics Cards
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[SOLVED] FPS drop in some games ?
Hello, I bought a pre-built PC in december and have had some trouble with certain games but nothing that could not be resolved with some tweaks like turning off steam/geforce experience/EA/ubisoft connect overlay, setting the texture filtering from quality to performance from nvidia control...- ScarletRaven
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- driver drop fps Far Cry fps freeze freeze after gaming gaming Geforce Experience horizon zero dawn nvidia Steam steam games stutter update windows
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Question PC randomly freezes and my USB ports seem to lose power ?
Hello, hopefully someone here can help me. I recently had a custom pc built for me through cyberpower. I decided to go all out (on my budget at least): Specs: MSI MPG Z690 FORCE Intel i9-13900K GeForce RTX 3080 10GB 32GB Fury DDR5 6000mhz RAM Corsair 1000 watt PSU Corsair 240mm liquid cooler... -
Question 3080 freezes for 1/2 sec at 2 hours of gaming
Hi all, I want to share something weird with my computer. I cannot say when but I started to notice this a few weeks ago. I race racegames on a triple screen setup. More specific, the game AMS2. My setup includes 3*1440p monitors. Now, after a session, which are multiple races, and that is...- Hlp51
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- 3080 freeze i9 9900K
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- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Question My PC freezes and crashes at random ?
Hey, I seem to have a problem with my PC and I was wondering if anyone could help me or direct me to something that could help me. The specifications: Motherboard - Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master GPU - MSI RTX 2080 ti 11 GB VRAM GDDR6 CPU - AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 3.8 GHz CPU cooler - NZXT Kraken X73... -
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Question Did I just brick two 7900xs?
I recently built a new PC, and immediately started struggling with freezes. After switching out various components, I came to the conclusion that my CPU wasn't working correctly, and so I ordered another one thinking I'd return the old one later. (I'd already tried different RAM, motherboard...- RogerDorsey
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- cpu freeze
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- Forum: CPUs
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Question PC randomly freezing
It's been months that I'm experiencing random freezes on my pc, it started almost as soon as I bought it and I can't relate it to some change or accident. Most of the time it freezes while I'm just using the browser and often it happened while no user program was running. After the freeze I...- niccolo_zanieri
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- freeze
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- Forum: Systems
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Question System freezes after exiting BIOS ?
Recently built a new system with some older parts brought over from my previous computer. Whenever I leave the BIOS by hitting "Save Changes and Exit" or "Discard Changes and Exit" (either one) the system will restart and then show a black screen with the ASRock logo and the spinning Windows...- rhodesgamer
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- am5 amd asrock bsod EVGA freeze windows 11
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Question All games freeze randomly
Hi, after a Nvidia gpu driver update, all of my games started freezing randomly, like 5 seconds fluid gameplay, and then a freeze for 1 sec. It also happens more frequently when I rotate the camera inside the game. I tried DDU, clean gpu driver install, but it didn't work. Can you help me...- Proigr3
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- freeze games gpu
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- Forum: Windows 10
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Question PC, Memtest86+ hangs: what to do?
My PC running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS started hanging in random moments, after I brought it with me on an international plane (it's in a tiny mini-ITX case, so I took it with me as hand luggage and handled with care). When I boot Memtest86+ from GRUB, it starts but hangs at 1 second mark without... -
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Question My PC freezes and I'm required to hard reboot ?
Hey, I seem to have a problem with my PC and I was wondering if anyone could help me or direct me to something that could help me. The specifications: Motherboard - Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master GPU - MSI RTX 2080 ti 11 GB VRAM GDDR6 CPU - AMD... -
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Question Lenovo Ideapad freeze even on BIOS screen
Hello, I have problem with my Lenovo Ideapad 5 15ARE05 (Ryzen 4700, 16GB RAM, Win 11, no dedicated GPU). Laptop was turned on a desk with only browser opened, I didn't use it for around hour and a half and screen just got all messy and turned off. So I had to turn it off by long press of the...- SaltCityBoy
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- bios freeze ideapad Lenovo
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- Forum: Laptop Tech Support
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Question PC is half frozen when I wake up every day, but works fine all day after a reset ?
For a couple of weeks now when I wake up my PC is frozen. I have alarms set in a website and those do not go off. this happens every single night. sometimes i can see the windows with some errors and can click around but slowly the computer becomes unusable. after a reset, it is fine for the... -
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Question Windows Explorer causes freezing which forces me to shut down the PC
I was recently having issues with windows 10 freezing randomly, and suspected my SSD failed. I ended up replacing my SSD and RAM. Did a fresh install of windows too, PC returned to normal and now days later its crashing again. The last crash was caused by right clicking and windows explorer...- superlosia1234
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- crashing freeze ram repair ssd windows10
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- Forum: Windows 10
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[SOLVED] Regular PC freezes after 7900 XT upgrade
Hi all, Yesterday I made the leap of upgrading to the 7900XT to be future proof towards 4K gaming. Initially ordered 3070, but returned it. I installed the new card today and was able to play a few games, but quite soon my pc started freezing which resulted in resetting it. First it happened...- ninsu
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- freeze
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- Forum: Graphics Cards
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[SOLVED] Weird clicking noise, freezing and audio issues
Hi! Weird issue (I think) Like once or twice an hour my PC emmits a fast clicking sound (like 5 notes), and i cant locate which component causes this. Directly after this sound/during this happends: Video and sound freezes for a few seconds, often the audio also "glitches" during this time or...- erikstb
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- audio componenets failing gpu failing psu freeze issue Screen
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Question Back panel USB-ports and their controllers ?
Long story short: I posted about my PC freezing/crashing recently here: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/newly-built-pc-crashing-freezing-volmgr-162.3794717/#post-22927737. I thought I had fixed the problem, but turns out I only made the freezes way less frequent. Now, instead of freezing...- opa9696
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- freeze motherboard USB Controller USB device
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- Forum: Motherboards
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Question PC Freezing/Rebooting During Gaming Only.
Good afternoon fellow pc enthusiasts :). I've got a bit of a conundrum. My PC will freeze/lock up whenever I'm gaming, and during completely random intervals forcing me to power off manually. This occurs randomly and could be 3 minutes into gaming, or 3 hours. Has not however occur during a GPU... -
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[SOLVED] Newly built PC crashing/freezing(volmgr 162)
Hello, new here. I recently built my new PC from used parts, except for PSU: -Gigabyte z390m -I7-9700 -1070 Ti -1x16 Gb 3200 MHz RAM, Kingston (Will change to 2x8 soon) -Samsung 980 M.2 SSD -Fractal Ion Gold 650W PSU -Win 11 Everything runs fine, stresstests pass, games are smooth and... -
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Question pc lags while playing games
Hi, I've been having these troubles for a while now, its not technically unusable but it is so very annoying. GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT RAM: HyperX Fury RGB DDR4 3200MHz 4x8 GB Storage: (C:) Kingston A2000 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD; (D:) Seagate 2TB - HDD; (F:) Seagate 1TB - HDD; (H:) Crucial®... -
Question Game/Computer freezes, then CPU usage drops to 6/7% ?
Hello everybody! I've had this problem for like 3 months now but it has gotten way worse recently so I had to reach out for help. What is happening is that whenever I play a semi-demanding game (like RDR2 or Dying Light), my game/computer would freeze for around 45 seconds minimum to upwards of...- WhiteNoize55
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- Bug Error freeze problem
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- Forum: Systems
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Question PC Randomly freezing up after add an SSD into it
I know this sounds as if the problem is the SSD drive but I thought maybe there is a way to reformat it? It's started happening 6 months ago when I purchased the SSD and since that day I had random PC freezes, I cannot find out exactly why would a PC freeze since I cannot see anything in the...- dawid.mohammedi
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- drive freeze ssd
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- Forum: Memory
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Question Low FPS with a GTX 1050 Ti ?
Im trying to understand whats wrong with my computer so i'll talk about this here too. I have a gtx 1050 Ti, i5-7600, 16GB RAM, 1tb m2 ssd. I havent played for some time and now that i want to start again I cant, because i get very low fps on games like fortnite, with lots of freezing. Task...- Gio_
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- freeze lag performance
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- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Question Not sure exactly if this is a GPU issue causing completely unresponsive freezing or something else.
Hello everyone, sorry this is going to be a long post but I am kinda scared right now since this is a very new PC and I want to offer as much context and information as possible. I have AMD gpu and cpu and I build this with a friend who has build a few computers before. Backstory, last night I...- DasPeas
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- freeze Hardware & Software
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- Forum: Graphics Cards
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Question Laptop Nvidia Graphics Card not detecting in Windows 10 or 11!!
Hello, I've recently come across an issue where my Nvidia GTX 1650Ti Laptop Graphics card is not detecting on my windows. The problem started with my windows freezing and crashing with the blue screen of death error. After restarting, the same thing happened again after some time and then I...- Tahir Sanwari
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- crash Drivers freeze graphics card gtx 1650ti nvidia windows 10 windows 11
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- Forum: Graphics Cards
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[SOLVED] computer freezed , when i connected extra fan to sata cable.
i wouldn't have surprised if i connected fan to motherboard while computer is running and something goes wrong. but i connected sata cable of powersupply to extra single fan when computer was running, and whole computer just freezed, nothing worked not even keyboard or mouse. my extra fan...- Kevin_debruyne
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- corsair fan freeze psu
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- Forum: Power Supplies
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Question PC Deadlock Freezes and sometimes BSOD
For as long as I can remember my PC when mostly playing any game or even sometimes on google or the desktop it deadlock freezes, So i have to turn off the PC from the switch and turn it back on. In the event manager I get code 41 Kernel-power. I also sometimes get BSOD, some of the faults were...- kfil
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- bsod freeze freeze after gaming window 10
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- Forum: Windows 10
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Question PC freezes constantly and can't shut down
PC Specs: i5 12400f Gigabyte B660 DS3H AX DDR4 WIFI Corsair Ballistic DDR4 2x8GB RAM MSi GTX 1060 3GB Crucial P2 m.2 1TB EVGA supernova G650 This is a somewhat new build with some parts (PSU and GPU) reused from my old PC and was built around April this year. I've pretty much had some kind of...- Wojciech_1
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- computer wont shut down cpu freeze freezes geforce gpu help intel mobo motherboard nvidia PC Freezing psu usb
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- Forum: Systems
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Question PC Freezes when Idle or Miniscule Tasks - Please Help
Hey guys, I have an ASUS P6TD Motherboard with 16GB RAM installed but I have a feeling I'm not utilizing this properly based on other folk's advice. I was advised to change the RAM mhz in BIOS, preferably to the 2nd closest speed to my RAM's capability listed there ("If RAM is running at 2666...- AsusFellas
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- freeze Idle memory motherboard ram
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- Forum: Memory
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Question PC Freeze Only When Stress Test
Hi, this problem has been bugging me out since 2 months ago. So basically my PC freeze when I do stress test using OCCT , Furmark and AMD Adrenaline Software (always around 2-5 seconds into the benchmark). I've been playing AAA games such as GOW and The Witcher 3 without any issue. But i'm... -
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Question PC hard-lock ups driving me insane
Hi all, I am seeking some assistance from the tom's Hardware collective please to stop me going insane! First I guess the info of the system: Windows 10 Pro, build 19044 (up to date) I9 9900K, not overclocked - bios all default settings / auto 2x8GB Corsair DDR4 2132 w/XMP @ 3596 - non XMP...
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